Endangered Species

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains (7)
  2. 6. Alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail (3)
  3. 9. Massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin (5)
  4. 10. Huge gray animal with a trunk (plural) (9)
  5. 12. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm (plural) (5)
  6. 13. Large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots (7)

Down

  1. 1. Largest anthropoid ape (plural) (8)
  2. 3. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (plural) (5)
  3. 4. Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (plural) (8)
  4. 5. Sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America (7)
  5. 7. Long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws (7)
  6. 8. Any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt (4)
  7. 11. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical (plural) (4)